Icones Imperatorum Romanorum, Ex priscis Numismatibus ad vivum delineatæ, & brevi Narratione Historicâ illustratæ per Hubertum Goltzium

Roman Emperors, Coins and Medallions. Goltzius (Hubert) Accessit modo Impp. Romano-Austriacorum Series, ab Alberto II. Aug. ad usque Ferdinandum III, Aug. per annos CC. continuos deducta. Stylo et Opera Casperii Gevartii I.C. Archigrammatica Antverpiani & Historiographi Cæsarei Engraved title-page by Cornelius Galle after Rubens and 144 medallion portraits in Chiaroscuro (giving the appearance of a bronze wash), offset to text Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, Antwerp,  1645  With the half-title  Folio Contemporary blindstamped vellum Vellum with some soiling and wear, piece missing from front free end-paper, light stain to same corner of the fly-leaf, otherwise a very nice copy; with the armorial bookplate of George Chetwynd, small armorial blindstamp to half-title  First published in 1557. The numbering of the portraits runs to 160, but nine were left blank, unfinished by the printer, and seven showing two portraits in one oval are counted as two.  

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